The Diary of a Middle-Aged Sage's Carefree Life in Another World: Volume 3 [Parts 1 to 7] by Kotobuki Yasukiyo

Author:Kotobuki Yasukiyo
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 6: The Old Guy Works

When Zelos had gone out to test out his new spell a couple of days ago, some very picky crafters had seen him making sculptures for his test pillars—and they’d forced him to fix every last little imperfection with them. It had turned into a hell of a job for the middle-aged mage, the dwarves yelling at him constantly as he worked through to sunset.

While the pillars had eventually become proper works of art, the task had completely exhausted his mana. He’d spent the whole day resting now, and it still wasn’t coming back that easily.

“Oh. You’re awake. Got your mana back yet?”

“Still only about a third of it. I used up every last bit I had, so it’ll take a fair while to recover it all.”

“Can you work yet, though? Kind of wanted to get five piers done today...”

“I should be fine as long as there’s not a repeat of what happened a couple of days ago. If I have to revise everything again, I feel like I’ll collapse for a full three days.”

Nagri hurriedly turned his head away. After all, he was the one who’d asked Zelos to help out with this project in the first place, as well as the one who’d said, “No way we can just let half-hearted work sit right under our noses,” and coerced Zelos into revising all of the sculptures he’d made. That revision was what had run Zelos’s mana dry—and if the actual construction work for the bridge got delayed as a result, it’d be Nagri’s fault for putting the cart before the horse.

He did realize, somewhere in his mind, that he’d gone too far. But if there was one thing you could say about dwarves, it was that showing them any sort of art or architecture flipped some kind of maniacal switch inside them.

It was like every dwarf had some kind of burning something inside of them—a passion that they simply couldn’t hold back.

“I’ve decided to call the new spell ‘Base Request.’”

“Well, I suppose it fits. Anyway, you want a mana potion?”

“I’ll take you up on that, thanks. I’m still a little lightheaded, as you might expect. It should help me to recover, just a bit.”

Zelos chugged down the mana potion in a single gulp. It only helped him recover by a tiny amount, but it was better than nothing. For the record, while he only had about a third of his maximum mana at the moment, he still had enough to far outstrip the average mage.

“Right, then—let’s go. We’ll be relying on you.”

“I’ll do what I can. I just need to make something similar to what I made yesterday, right?”

“Aye. You got the width of the piers down pat? Can always check the blueprints first, if you want.”

“I’ll be fine. Anyway, shall we get going?”

Zelos headed to the cliff with Nagri, where he then held out both of his arms and deployed a magic formula to activate his new spell at the intended location.

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